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Definition of angulate in English:

angulate

verb

1Hold, bend, or distort (a part of the body, especially of an animal) so as to form an angle or angles.

‘the hindquarters are more strongly angulated than the forequarters’

‘Dogs bred to have exaggerated angulation in the hindquarters, extreme pelvic slope, or are poorly muscled, poorly angulated, and narrow in the hips seem more predisposed.’

‘At this point I preferred to have a quick look myself, and indeed my daughter had a mildly angulated Smith's greenstick fracture.’

‘Then twist and angulate your knees and ankles back toward the center, starting the new turn.’

‘Imagine an open displaced angulated comminuted (yes, this is a quiz of sorts) clavicle fracture.’

‘Although the cells can show a spectrum of morphologic appearances, from round to slightly irregular, angulated, cleaved, or even cerebriform, the cells usually show little variation within an individual neoplasm.’

‘Tuberculous infection may result in vertebral collapse and a sharply angulated deformity (Pott's disease).’

‘This fracture occurs with the hand dorsiflexed; the distal fracture segment is angulated dorsally and causes a ‘silver-fork’ deformity.’

‘The spicules of bone, after alveolated parenchyma had been corroded off, revealed the characteristic coral-like branching and angulated bony spicules of DPO.’